Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long to live. A prisoner on an island in the Imperial City was her nephew, the 37-year-old Emperor Kuang Hsu whose offense had been to attempt to modernize China and rid it of the burden of its old mandarins by the device of asking them all to commit suicide. On Nov. 14, 1908 two of the Old Empress's guards are said to have broken into Kuang Hsu's apartments and strangled him. As his successor the old lady had picked Pu Yi, the chubby little son of her nephew Prince Chun...
...dispose of her interest in the Chinese Eastern Railway. It is simply a matter of price. . . . Most certainly we cannot go to war because of a railway. It is incredible! War with Russia would mean war with other countries and with the United States. We do not want to commit suicide!" What was the possibility of Japan's attacking the U. S.? "Poppycock!" laughed Ambassador Saito. Did Japan covet the Philippines? "I will say that most definitely Japan does not want the Philippines," he replied. "You already have found them expensive." To clear the air of weighty matters, Ambassador...
...Arbeiter Zeitung and announced that they had uncovered evidence of heinous plots and enough bombs to wreck a good section of the city. The Farmers' Party sent a vigorous protest which was promptly suppressed. When Chancellor Dollfuss reappeared in Vienna, he was ready at last to commit himself. Assured of French support (see p. 16), he boldly called the Socialists by their Heimwehr tag, "Marxist-Bolshevists," patted the Heimwehr on the back for "demanding the rapid execution of my program for getting rid of the parties and Parliament...
...dreadful possibility that, in the event of the non-adoption of a new constitution, the club might fall into the clutches of the N.S.L. The CRIMSON has also in the past suggested that the N.S.L. plots to wrest control of the Liberal Club from its guileless members or to commit them to policies contrary to their liberal principles. It might, therefore, be well to clarify our position, both in this matter and in general. We believe that the Liberal Club contributes valuable discussions of current social problems, and that it affords a possibility of useful action based on the knowledge...
...cause of all crime," was the opinion expressed by Clarence Darrow in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "The only way to cure our present so-called crime wave is a radical redistribution of wealth so that no one would have more than another, thereby removing all temptation to commit crime...